Category Archives: open access

0708, 2012

Free access to British publicly funded research

robinna/ August 7, 2012/ open access, that's cool/ 0 comments

The British government is planning to make all publicly funded research freely accessible by 2014. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research “British universities now pay around £200m a year in subscription fees to journal publishers, but under the new scheme, authors will pay “article processing charges” (APCs) to have their papers peer reviewed, edited and made freely available online.” This decision comes as a result

1502, 2011

Institutional Repository Conference (Free!)

robinna/ February 15, 2011/ Digital Libraries, Libraries, open access/ 0 comments

The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library arepleased to announce “Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:Institutional Repositories as Publishers,” a free one-day conference oninstitutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education. Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011Location: KSU Continuing Education The keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Councilon Undergraduate Research. This free

1807, 2010

Public Library of Science Open access publishing

robinna/ July 18, 2010/ Libraries, open access/ 0 comments

Public library of Science (PLoS) is currently publishing seven peer reviewed scientific and medical journals on the open access model. The Open Access model charges researchers for publication of their accepted papers (in the case of PLos ~1300), but researchers retain copyright and That means everyone, everywhere can read, redistribute and reuse your research without cost: colleagues, patients, policy makers,

0508, 2009

Open Library project update

robinna/ August 5, 2009/ Libraries, open access, Design, opensource/ 0 comments

The final report of the Open Library Environment project is available for reading. ♥ this project with its focus on the behind the scenes… because if the behind the scenes (processing system/database/data) doesn’t work very well, the public interface is not going to work very well. I am definitely keeping an eye on this project and I hope to be

1502, 2009

Gpeer — Peer Review project via Google Code

robinna/ February 15, 2009/ open access/ 0 comments

… the code license is from MIT not GOOGLE btw…. http://code.google.com/p/gpeerreview/ From the website: Why? * Peer reviews give credibility to an author’s work. * Journals and conferences can use this tool to indicate acceptance of a paper. * Researchers can also give credibility to each other by reviewing each others’ works. * This enables researchers to publish first, and

2305, 2008

OpenLibrary news

robinna/ May 23, 2008/ Libraries, metadata, open access, 3D/ 0 comments

If you’ve not heard of the openlibrary.org initiative, the idea is “one web pagefor every book ever published.” A pretty noble undertaking….Anyhow, news is that have now have a total of 13.4 million books,with about 18 million more records to go.Of course quantity and quality are not the same. ;-DAs for where these records are coming from, they have startedmerging